UPDATED: Tabata Apologizes the Mistake in the PSN Description, Noctis Only Playable Character + Explained Why

Update: Final Fantasy XV won’t support character switch. Tabata apologized and said the PSN description was a mistake. The battle system was too complicated when they had the character switch system, so they decided to go with the single character experience like in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. We will be making a deep report after the official subtitled version is out to make sure everything will be 100% clear from now on.

Sony has released the latest trailers from Tokyo Game Show 2014 on the Japanese PlayStation Store. Alongside many other titles, Final Fantasy XV makes an appearance as “TGS2014 Special Trailer”. The video itself is the same but the description confirms something we have been speculating for a long time: You can actually switch party members. Here is our translation of the description:

Taking advantage of the next generation console’s specifications, characters can move around the entire screen and the traditional party battle of Final Fantasy games is evolved so you can enjoy battle even more strategically by switching party members.

There will be interaction a lot actually since the game focusses on co-operating with other characters. We will be making a post soon about all things they talked about during the talk show, but that is when the official translation is out.

Ok! Then, I imagine that it will be possible to indirectly control the way the other fight? What do you think? In other words, without being able to switch, we may be able to control the other characters with a menu similar to Attack/Magic/Potion\Limit Break, etc!

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I really hope they will be clarifying all confusion during this session. During the last conference, they didn’t really have much time to introduce the game well, which just led to speculation on the Internet. According to SE, they will be making subtitles for the video as well, so there shouldn’t be translation problems either! Though, they might not be available immediately!

Hahah the confusion is big amongst everyone since Tabata said there wouldn’t be such a thing during 4Gamer’s interview. Though, it’s likely he was referring to the demo, and the interview + we translators understood it wrong.

Well ” You can only control Noctis” Can sound like ” You can only control 1 member at a time”. Tabata could have used the wrong wording, as interviews are not longer and have to answer questions at a decently fast paced.

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Well, I think there has never been such a case, where we would have been writing misleading information, and all things have been clarified, if there have been misunderstandings. (Once?) Since we have actually been thanked and credited by many sources, such as IGN, Gameinformer, Eurogamer, Destructoid, Joystick, The Verge and many others, for doing such a great translation/reporting work, I’m not really worried about this. That is why I wouldn’t really pay any attention on this kind of comments coming from some fansites/personal blogs(?) either.

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I am not sure what to think about this situation, but I do believe you guys are reliable source of information, as your information isn’t all that different from other creditable source. I don’t know it’s those kinds of actions from sites when they aren’t justified that make me not want to go to their site.

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